176344 - some blocked pop-ups don't register - pop up blocking needs manual adding to whitelist

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Azrael AOD]

Currently pop-up blocking (when turned on) shows a yellow (i) button on status
bar, which allows you to add that site to the pop-up whitelist.

However, when using the web end of an exchange e-mail server, with po-up
blocking on alot of functionality is lost, and the way in which it works (I
think) prevents the yellow icon appearing.

reading an e-mail seems ok, but to reply, the site closes the current window,
and tries to open a new window - presumably as an action of closing the previous
one. This fails, and there is no yellow (i) on the original root window - and
the closed window.. is obviously closed.
It would be nice if in the prefs there was a way to manually add to the whitelist.
Possible would also be to turn off blocking, visit the site again, and when the
pop-ups occur, to have the yellow (i) appear _anyway_ and let sites be added to
the whitelist _even_ when pop-up blocking is not enabled. (this does not sound
like an ideal solution to me - but more user friendly than manually adding sites.)

If anything, I'd like to know if I can manually add the site in a pref file to
solve my own immediate issue.

But still think this is a bug, some pop-ups don't register with the pop-up
blocker ui.

The code onthe site for the reply button is:

<a href="JavaScript:DoCommand('reply')">  
<img SRC="/exchange/forms/reply.gif" Alt="Reply to sender" align="middle"
border=0></a>

which refers to:

    if (szCommand == "reply") {
     
window.location="commands.asp?command=reply&obj=00000000178F4CA9ECC5D41183E000D0B7D3010807009D10E7EFC779D411B03400D0B7D301080000000C14B500009D10E7EFC779D411B03400D0B7D30108000001DDDED70000";
       
    }

in this instance..

Comment 1

[Neil Cronin]

I can't confirm or disconfirm the non-registering part of the bug, but you can
edit cookperm.txt to add individual sites.  

exchange-server.com  2F

I think that's the correct format to allow popups.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

worksforme with 1026 build.

Comment 3

[Azrael AOD]

asa: when you say that it works for you, have you tried this on an Outlook Web
Access site?
I just tried it aghain with a brand new install (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021026 Phoenix/0.3) and the Outlook Web
Access site was the first one I visited with a pop-up. I obtained the initial
phoenix warning re popups, and how a status bar icon would be shown. However
such an icon was not shown. So this doesn't work when the winow to be opened
originates from a window that is closed. Also there is no way to manually add a
site to the pop-up whitelist from the GUI. _I_ am happy with the workaround of
manually editing cookperm.txt, but this isn't a valid solution to the bug.

Comment 4

[Azrael AOD]

With the new 'add site' button, I think this bug counts as fixed, rather than
WFM, as the bug report calls for such an ability to over come a problem.
However, as it now does technically work for me.. due to the new button which I
regard as a fix, I shall simply verify.